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| National Safety Council recognized Ameco with safety awards Ameco, a unit of Fluor Corp, providing integrated equipment and tool solutions to government and industry, announced that the National Safety Council (NSC) has recognized the firm with multiple safety awards, most prominently, for its Industry Leader Award. Ameco was recognized at the recent NSC 2009 Safety Congress and Expo in Orlando, Fla., and was distinguished for achieving the best safety performance in its category within construction, mining, forestry machinery, and equipment leasing and rental. The award is one component of NSC's Occupational Award Program. Top members of their program are judged by their overall safety performance over the past year. There are more than 48,000 members in the NSC including businesses, labor organizations, schools, public agencies, private groups and individuals. In addition to the industry recognition award, Ameco also received the following four specialty safety awards from NSC: * Perfect Record Award for more than eight years (March 2001 to August 2009) without a lost workday case * Million Hour Award for more than 28 million hours without a lost workday case * National Safety Achievement Award for a total case incident rate being safer than 50 percent of the industry rate for 2009 * Safety Leadership Award for more than five years without a lost workday case (2005-2009) The NSC also recognized four Ameco operating locations for safety performance at its three Texas-based offices (Borger, Houston and Tyler) and Greenville, S.C. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |